PAS: Cyber a New Domain

Wednesday, April 11, 2018 @ 06:04 PM gHale

By Gregory Hale
Technology is advancing across all industries and it is making them smarter and more agile, but attack vectors are also on the rise, which means industry leaders need to understand who and what they are facing.

“The faster we go, the more ‘behinder’ we get,” said General Michael Hayden, principal at the Chertoff Group and former Director of the CIA and the NSA, during his keynote address Tuesday at the PAS 2018 Optics conference in Houston, TX. “What is good for business is sometimes bad for business.”

Hayden also talked about an attack against critical infrastructure that happened about eight years ago and that was Stuxnet.

“It was a peacetime attack on a critical infrastructure; Stuxnet crossed the Rubicon and crossed the threshold,” he said. “Stuxnet was an unsheathing of a weapon and in human history says once we take it out we don’t put the weapon back in the sheath.”